Why won't my table headers show? Why are they concatenating? - Quick Tableau Tip!

While with a client, my colleague Jules and I had the same issue on the same day. Puzzled, we reached out to the wider Information Lab team and learnt something completely new! I'll explain below. The issue was this;  Basically,...

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Fast start or frustration; England vs. Iceland preview

I maintain this; that this team that Hodgson has been putting out, and the system being deployed is the best I've seen in in my life as an England fan. It's just good to watch - it has balance, players who have a good amount of...

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England vs. Russia | It wasn't that bad..

This is possibly the best England team I've seen.* *I emphasise the word team here. Lots of caveats to this statement such as 'in parts', 'team performance', 'cohesion', 'understanding' etc. It's a sensationalist statement to draw you...

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Consistent. Clear. Engaging - Data Visualisations Style guide; an Introduction

For almost every single company, branding is super important.  Of the below, how many can you recognise, just from the colour scheme, font, logo or layout? (For reference, Apple, Ralph Lauren, McDonalds, PlayStation) These...

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#FastFriday - Number 2

Welcome to the second in the #FastFriday series. For context, this is a weekly challenge that Ben Moss, Simona Loffredo and myself will be participating in. The concept is as follows - We have to create a visualisation created from a dataset which we see for the first time  when we connect to Tableau. We're starting with a time limit...

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